When the Detroit Tigers traded for Jose Iglesias during the 2013 season they thought they were getting their shortstop for the next fifteen years.
Iglesias and the Tigers hit a little snag in that plan almost immediately however. He had a .303 batting average between the Boston Red Sox and Detroit, but hit only .259 in his 46 games with the Tigers. Iglesias continued his struggles...

Is there any doubt that if players had a soundtrack associate to their season much like a movie, the Marc Ronson/Bruno Mars smash “Uptown Funk” would be somewhere on the Jose Iglesias album? There isn’t a player on the club that better exhibits the upbeat craziness on the field that the hit tune evokes on the radio airwaves every day during its long run at number one. Can’t...

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When your glove is as good as Jose Iglesias’, you don’t even need to look. On Saturday against the White Sox, Iglesias battled the sun on a soft liner hit right at him. At the last second, he had to look away. He stuck up his glove and…happy birthday to him. There’s nothing worse on the baseball field (injuries aside) than losing a ball in the sun.
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Detroit Tigers Shortstop, Jose Iglesias came out of the game in their 3-2 loss to Houson Astros Saturday afternoon after he was attempting to beat out a throw to first, which he did, but it came with a price.
Iglesias ran down the first baseline and as he hit first base clipped first baseman, Chris Carter and he tumbled to the ground almost doing a somersault.
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Most players make it to Major League Baseball without a fully refined skillset. Some players make it to the majors with a particular skill so great it outweighs a lack of skills normally required to function at the major-league level. Sometimes, it is an electric fastball despite a lack of command or secondary pitches. For […]

The Detroit Tigers are rumored to be thinking about dealing shortstop Jose Iglesias due to their excitement regarding Eugenio Suarez’s play, according to Nick Carafrdo of the Boston Globe.
Out for the rest of the season with bi-lateral stress fractures in his legs, Iglesias was once viewed as the Tigers’ shortstop of the future. A defensive wizard, Iglesias was never a player...

The Detroit Tigers remain atop the standings in the American League Central, even after a rough stretch of games that included dropping four of seven on the west coast. Their shortstops however, are bottom-feeders to the core.
Before we get too far into this it is worth noting that yes, Andrew Romine’s defense has been commendable. But enough with the accolades already…
How about...

When news breaks in Detroit Tigers camp of the magnitude of the Jose Iglesias injury, all hell breaks loose. Every Tigers writer with an audience has been taking to the web and prognosticating what GM Dave Dombrowski should do. But as we all know too well by now, Dombrowski will never tip his hand.
Now it’s my turn.
Here is the list of names that have already popped up in one form...

When speculation started that Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias could miss the entire season, people were taken aback.
How could a case of shin splints, no matter how severe, cause that?
Iglesias told reporters in Lakeland Monday that he has stress fractures in both of his legs.
"Stress fractures is a term used for a lot of things," said Dr. James Carpenter, chair of orthopaedic surgery...

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